The festival opens on Thursday 9 April at Amare, where artist and composer Caterina Barbieri presents two premieres of new music. First, she performs in collaboration with ONCEIM, an orchestra of over thirty musicians for whom she has written a new composition. Then she presents another premiere of new music as a solo artist, showcasing her vivid modular synthesis and expanded electro-acoustic formats, accompanied by guest musicians. Also performing are Actress & Suzanne Ciani, an exciting collaboration between composer Suzanne Ciani, an icon and early pioneer of electronic music composition, and producer Actress. Together, they present Concrète Waves. Between Actress's R&B concrète and Ciani's evocative and organic Buchla synthesis, they create a sonic world of bubbling contradictions.